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In 1910, young Pierre Maturie bid farewell to his comfortable
bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta
in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some
sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before
he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like
that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and
hardship--perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies,
panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the
Hudson's Bay Company along the Athabasca River. Blessed with the
rare gift of a natural storyteller, Maturie conveys his abiding
nostalgia for a country he loved deeply yet ultimately had to
abandon.
Maturie's memoir, Man Proposes, God Disposes,
appeared in France in 1972, to a warm reception. Now, in the deft and
marvellously empathetic translation of Vivien Bosley, it is at long
last available in English. As a portrait of pioneer life in northern
Alberta, as a window onto the French experience in Canada, and, above
all, as an irresistible story--it will continue to find a place in
the hearts of readers for years to come.Vivien Bosley is a professor emeritus of French at the
University of Alberta. Her translations from the French range from
seventeenth-century feminism to Canadian political biography.
bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta
in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some
sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before
he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like
that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and
hardship--perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies,
panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the
Hudson's Bay Company along the Athabasca River. Blessed with the
rare gift of a natural storyteller, Maturie conveys his abiding
nostalgia for a country he loved deeply yet ultimately had to
abandon.
Maturie's memoir, Man Proposes, God Disposes,
appeared in France in 1972, to a warm reception. Now, in the deft and
marvellously empathetic translation of Vivien Bosley, it is at long
last available in English. As a portrait of pioneer life in northern
Alberta, as a window onto the French experience in Canada, and, above
all, as an irresistible story--it will continue to find a place in
the hearts of readers for years to come.Vivien Bosley is a professor emeritus of French at the
University of Alberta. Her translations from the French range from
seventeenth-century feminism to Canadian political biography.
作者簡介
Vivien Bosley is a professor emeritus of French at theUniversity of Alberta. Her translations from the French range fromseventeenth-century feminism to Canadian political biography.
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